It begins in the days after Sadat's assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and grief in the United States at the death of the heroic president. All the western leaders then travelled to Cairo to say goodbye to the man who had courageously changed the course of history. But then they found that practically no Egyptians turned up to the funeral. And the western politicians and the American TV reporters couldn't understand why. The documentary tries to find the answer.

Fourth film in the Mafrouza series. Two events mark the early winter in Mafrouza: the birth of a boy...

"Nasr Hamed Abou Zayd is not Godot, and the expectation promised by the title is misleading: this gr...

It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the...

Travel to ancient Egypt to see how science was used to tell time, make a workable calendar, and alig...

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Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Produced by CBN Documentaries and Biblical Productions, "In Our Hands" tells the story of the Battle...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

The great history of Egypt is inscribed on its monuments, temples and tombs, but hieroglyphs – the w...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...
In the 14 months prior to the revolution, filmmaker Lillie Paquette follows key opposition figures a...

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relation...

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

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Rome was famed for the decadence of its ruling class, however, what about the ordinary citizens of t...

We all know about Alexandria, one of the greatest cities of the classical world, with its great Libr...

The grail is not the gold, nor the books of ancient wisdom, but the 3,000 year old DNA of the mummie...

Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without co...

Experts look into the mystery surrounding the lost tomb of Queen Nefertiti, an ancient Egyptian rule...

Through their fieldwork, scientists bring to life a lost and unknown chapter of ancient Egypt, and w...